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WHITTAKER'S WORLD OF MUSIC.
Whittaker's World of Music was presented
by Roger Whittaker.
It ran for one series between April and July
1971.
A variety of musical and variety acts appeared on the show such
as Freda Payne, The Move, Slade, the Bee Gees, Bruce Forsyth and Ken
Dodd, many of which dueted
with Roger on his choice of songs.
Transmission
Roger Whittaker.
There were 13 editions all of
which survive in the ITV archives.
London
Weekend Television.
10th April 1971 to 3rd July 1971.
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Episode Guide
10 April 1971 (SHOW 1)
Roger
Whittaker – ‘Blowing in the Wind’.
The New Seekers – ‘The Nickel
Song’.
John Williams – ‘Good Morning Freedom’.
J Vincent Edwards – ‘It’s The Same Old Song’.
Roger Whittaker - 'New World in the Morning.'
Rolf Harris - 'Take
Back the Things (We Said).
Roger Whittaker & Rolf Harris - 'Sun
Arise.
Sylvia McNeill – ‘River Deep, Mountain High’.
Georgie
Fame and Alan Price - 'Rosetta.'
Roger Whittaker - 'Dirty Old Town,’
Roger Whittaker - 'Michael (Row the Boat Ashore)’.
All the
guests and studio audience 'Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In)'.
Other credits:
Announcer: Brian
Matthews.
Dancers: Sally Riggs, Micki Hotack, Zena Clifton Dancer,
Bonita Brug, Maggie Vickers, Dennie Bayliss
Lorna Nathan, Georgina
Allen.
Choreographer: Nita Howard.
Backing Singers: The Ladybirds
(Maggie Stradder, Gloria George, Marion Davies)
Running time -
minutes: 39:36
Producer/Director: Keith Beckett
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17 April 1971 (SHOW 2)
Roger Whittaker - 'The Cincinnati
Kid'
The Mixtures - 'Henry Ford.'
Sylvia McNeil – ‘A Whiter
Shade Of Pale’
Roy Budd - 'Get Carter'
Roger Whittaker - 'Why'
J Vincent Edwards - 'Knock Three Times,'
Shirley Bassey - 'What about Today' & '(Where Do I Begin) Love Story'.
Gilbert O'Sullivan - 'Underneath the Blanket Go'
Roger Whittaker -
'Whistle Stop
Roger Whittaker & Barry Morgan (from the Blue Mink
Rhythm Section) - 'Day-O'
All the guests and studio audience -
'Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In),
Other
credits:
Announcer: Brian Matthews.
Dancers: Sally Riggs,
Micki Hotack, Zena Clifton Dancer, Bonita Brug, Maggie Vickers, Dennie
Bayliss
Lorna Nathan, Georgina Allen.
Choreographer: Nita Howard.
Backing Singers: The Ladybirds (Maggie Stradder, Gloria George,
Marion Davies)
Running time - minutes: 38:25
Producer/Director: Keith Beckett
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24 April 1971 (SHOW 3)
Roger Whittaker - 'Le Mistral.'
Brotherhood of Man - 'Reach out Your
Hand.'
Ginette Reno - 'Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood.'
J.
Vincent Edwards - 'The Letter'
Roger Whittaker - 'If.'
Bruce
Forsyth - 'What the World Needs Now is Love.'
Bruce Forsyth, Ginette
Reno and Roger Whittaker - 'Put Your Hand in the Hand.'
Sylvia
McNeill - 'Higher and Higher'
Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon - 'Mr
Tambourine Man.'
Roger Whittaker & Alan Parker (from the Blue Mink
Rhythm) - 'Early One Morning' and 'Green Green'.
All the guests and
studio audience - 'Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In),
Other credits:
Announcer: Brian
Matthews.
Dancers: Sally Riggs, Micki Hotack, Zena Clifton Dancer,
Bonita Brug, Maggie Vickers, Dennie Bayliss
Lorna Nathan, Georgina
Allen.
Choreographer: Nita Howard.
Backing Singers: The Ladybirds
(Maggie Stradder, Gloria George, Marion Davies)
Running time -
minutes: 38:25
Producer/Director: Keith Beckett
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01 May 1971 (SHOW 4)
Roger
Whittaker - 'Good Morning Starshine'
The Fantastics - 'Something
Old, Something New.'
Matt Monro - 'Isn't It a Pity.'
Alan Haven
‘unidentified Jazz instrumental’
Roger Whittaker - 'What Love Is.'
Jerry Reed - 'Amos Moses'
Sandie Shaw - 'Chelsea Morning.'
Roger Whittaker, J. Vincent Edwards, Jerry Reed & Sandie Shaw - 'Thanks'
(to the Lord for a Girl like Emily Jane).
McGuinness Flint - 'The
Malt and Barley Blues.
Sylvia McNeill and J. Vincent Edwards - 'Hit
the Road Jack' & 'Up on the Roof.'
Roger Whittaker & Herbie Flowers
(from the Blue Mink Rhythm). ‘Unidentified song’.
Roger Whittaker -
'Wimoweh'
All the guests and studio audience - 'Aquarius (Let the
Sunshine In)’.
Other credits:
Announcer: Brian Matthews.
Dancers: Sally Riggs, Micki Hotack, Zena
Clifton Dancer, Bonita Brug, Maggie Vickers, Dennie Bayliss
Lorna
Nathan, Georgina Allen.
Choreographer: Nita Howard.
Backing
Singers: The Ladybirds (Maggie Stradder, Gloria George, Marion Davies)
Running time - minutes: 38:25
Producer/Director: Keith Beckett
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08 May 1971 (SHOW 5)
Roger
- 'Sixteen Tons.'
Ginette Reno - 'You've Made Me So Very Happy,'
J Vincent Edwards – ‘Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In)
Roger introduces
some celebrities in the studio audience, world international tennis
players Ann Haydon Jones, Billie Jean King, Rosemary Casals and Mary Ann
Curtis.
Roger Whittaker – ‘Durham Town (The Leavin).’
Frank
Ifield – ‘Everybodys Talkin’.
Roger Whittaker and Ginette Reno – ‘I
Can’t Grow Peaches on a Cherry Tree’.
The Dubliners – ‘Hand Me Down
Bible’.
Roger, Frank, Ginette and J Vincent Edwards join The
Dubliners – ‘I’ll Tell Me Ma’.
Jimmy Cliff – ‘Goodbye Yesterday’.
Blue Mink – ‘Banner Man’
Roger Whittaker – ‘unidentified
whistling song’ & ‘Bring Me Water.’
All the guests and studio
audience - 'Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In)’.
Other credits:
Announcer: Brian
Matthews.
Dancers: Sally Riggs, Micki Hotack, Zena Clifton Dancer,
Bonita Brug, Maggie Vickers, Dennie Bayliss
Lorna Nathan, Georgina
Allen.
Choreographer: Nita Howard.
Backing Singers: The Ladybirds
(Maggie Stradder, Gloria George, Marion Davies)
Running time -
minutes: 38:25
Producer/Director: Keith Beckett
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15 May 1971 (SHOW 6)
Roger
Whittaker - 'Santiano' & 'Both Sides Now.'
Dr Marigold's Prescription
- 'Muddy Water.'
Severine 'Chance in Time (Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une
Rue)'
Rolf Harris - 'Jake the Peg'
Rolf Harris & Roger Whittaker -
‘Zulu war chant’
J. Vincent Edwards - 'Come on Over to My Place'
Mungo Jerry - 'Lady Rose.'
Zack Laurence - 'Groovin' with Mr Bloe'
(with ‘Pieces of Eight’ who perform a dance routine.)
Roger Whittaker
- 'What You Left Behind.’
Ginette Reno - 'Spinning Wheel.'
Ginette
Reno, J. Vincent Edwards and Roger Whittaker - 'Fire and Rain.'
Ashton, Gardner, Dyke - 'Can You Get It.'
J. Vincent Edwards -
'MacArthur Park'
Severine - 'Chi Boo Chi Ba.'
Roger Whittaker -
'The Skye Boat Song' & 'He's got the Whole World in His Hands.'
All
the guests and studio audience - 'Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In)’.
Other credits:
Announcer: Brian
Matthews.
Dancers: Sally Riggs, Micki Hotack, Zena Clifton Dancer,
Bonita Brug, Maggie Vickers, Dennie Bayliss
Lorna Nathan, Georgina
Allen.
Choreographer: Nita Howard.
Backing Singers: The Ladybirds
(Maggie Stradder, Gloria George, Marion Davies)
Running time -
minutes: 51.00
Producer: Keith Beckett
Director: Bruce Gowers
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22 May 1971 (SHOW 7)
Roger
Whittaker - 'Jack of Diamonds.'
Joe Brown & Jawbone - ‘Down by the
Yukon’.
Freda Payne – ‘Band of Gold’.
J Vincent Edwards – ‘(Ain’t
that) Good News’.
Roger Whittaker – ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix.'
Blue Mink - 'Banner Man.'
Joe Brown – ‘She’s Got the Biggest Balalaika
in the Balkans’
J Vincent Edwards, Roger Whittaker, Joe Brown, Ginette
Reno and Freda Payne – ‘Proud Mary.’
Freda Payne – ‘Rock Me in the
Cradle (Of Your Lovin Arms).'
Slade – ‘Get Down Get and Get With It.’
Ginette Reno – ‘Show Me.’
Roger whistles – ‘unidentified song’ &
‘Greenback Dollar’.
All the guests and studio audience - 'Aquarius
(Let the Sunshine In)’.
Confetti and party streamers are flying through
the air. Joe Brown pours a bucket of confetti over Rogers head which
results in him getting a bucket on his own head.
Other credits:
Announcer: Brian
Matthews.
Dancers: Sally Riggs, Micki Hotack, Zena Clifton Dancer,
Bonita Brug, Maggie Vickers, Dennie Bayliss
Lorna Nathan, Georgina
Allen.
Choreographer: Nita Howard.
Backing Singers: The Ladybirds
(Maggie Stradder, Gloria George, Marion Davies)
Running time -
minutes: 38.25
Producer: Keith Beckett
Director: Bruce Gowers
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29 May 1971 (SHOW 8)
Roger
Whittaker - 'Steel Men'
The Move - 'Tonight,'
Ginette Reno -
'Something.'
Peter Noone - 'Oh You Pretty Things,'
Roger Whittaker
- 'Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)'
The Dudley Moore Trio - 'A Song for
Suzy.'
Sandie Shaw - 'Show your face.'
Sandie Shaw, Roger Whittaker
and Dudley Moore - 'The Games People Play.'
J Vincent Edwards - 'Light
My Fire.'
Mireille Mathieu – ‘Can a Butterfly Cry’
Roger Whattaker
– ‘whistles an unidentified instrumental song’ & 'The Leaving of
Liverpool.'
Other credits:
Announcer: Brian Matthews.
Dancers: Sally Riggs, Micki Hotack, Zena
Clifton Dancer, Bonita Brug, Maggie Vickers, Dennie Bayliss
Lorna
Nathan, Georgina Allen.
Choreographer: Nita Howard.
Backing
Singers: The Ladybirds (Maggie Stradder, Gloria George, Marion Davies)
Running time - minutes: 38.11
Producer/Director: Keith Beckett
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05 June 1971 (SHOW 9)
Roger
Whittaker - 'Gentle on My Mind.'
Ginette Reno - 'Bridge over Troubled
Water.'
Los Reales Del Paraguay - 'Un Rayo Del Sol' & 'La Bamba.'
Roger Whittaker - 'Scarborough Fair.'
J. Vincent Edwards - 'It Was a
Very Good Year.'
Ken Dodd - 'When Love Comes Round Again.'
Lulu -
'It Don't Come Easy.'
J. Vincent Edwards, Ginette Reno, Lulu and Roger
Whittaker - 'Put a Little Love in Your Heart.'
Marvin, Welch and
Farrar - 'Lady of the Morning.'
Lulu - 'Everybody Clap.'
Roger
Whittaker - 'Greensleeves.' & 'Halfway up a Mountain.'
All the guests
and studio audience - 'Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In)’.
Other credits:
Announcer: Brian
Matthews.
Dancers: Sally Riggs, Micki Hotack, Zena Clifton Dancer,
Bonita Brug, Maggie Vickers, Dennie Bayliss
Lorna Nathan, Georgina
Allen.
Choreographer: Nita Howard.
Backing Singers: The Ladybirds
(Maggie Stradder, Gloria George, Marion Davies)
Blue Mink Rhythm
Running time - minutes: 39.28
Producer: Keith Beckett
Director:
Bruce Gowers
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12 June 1971 (SHOW 10)
Roger
Whittaker - 'Settle Down'
The Peddlers - 'Walk on the Wild Side.'
Ginette Reno - 'I've got to Have You.'
Stephane Grappelli – ‘an
unidentified song.’
Roger Whittaker & Keith Michell - 'Sunrise,
Sunset'
Roger Whittaker and his guests - 'Boil Them Cabbage Down.'
The Peddlers - 'Southern Woman.'
J. Vincent Edwards - 'Didn't We.'
Stephane Grappelli - 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.'
Dana - 'Today.'
Roger Whittaker - 'Berceuse pour mon amour' & 'Sugar My Tea.'
All the
guests and studio audience - 'Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In)’.
Other credits:
Announcer: Brian
Matthews.
Dancers: Sally Riggs, Micki Hotack, Zena Clifton Dancer,
Bonita Brug, Maggie Vickers, Dennie Bayliss
Lorna Nathan, Georgina
Allen.
Choreographer: Nita Howard.
Backing Singers: The Ladybirds
(Maggie Stradder, Gloria George, Marion Davies)
Blue Mink Rhythm
Running time - minutes: 39.25
Musical associate: Sam Harding
Musical Director: Harry Rabinowitz
Producer/Director: Keith Beckett
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19 June 1971 (SHOW 11)
Roger
Whittaker - 'I Believe.'
The Bee Gees - 'How Can You Mend a Broken
Heart,'
J Vincent Edwards - 'When My Little Girl is Smiling.'
Roger Whittaker - 'Morning Please Don't Come'
Freddie Starr - 'Naomi,'
Nina and Frederik - 'Where's The Playground Bobby.' '
Roger
Whittaker & Nina - 'It Looks Like it’s going to Rain'.
The Bee Gees -
'I've Gotta Get a Message to You.'
David Snell - 'Goin' Out of My
Head.' & 'The Windmills of Your Mind.' (with Ginette Reno)
Roger
Whittaker - 'The Russian Whistler'
Sacha Distel - 'Odds and Ends.'
Sacha, Roger and Nina - 'You've Lost That Loving Feeling.'
All the
guests and studio audience - 'Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In)’.
Other credits:
Announcer: Brian
Matthews.
Dancers: Sally Riggs, Micki Hotack, Zena Clifton Dancer,
Bonita Brug, Maggie Vickers, Dennie Bayliss
Lorna Nathan, Georgina
Allen.
Choreographer: Nita Howard.
Backing Singers: The Ladybirds
(Maggie Stradder, Gloria George, Marion Davies)
Blue Mink Rhythm
Running time - minutes: 38.59
Musical associate: Sam Harding
Musical Director: Harry Rabinowitz
Producer: Keith Beckett
Director: Bruce Gowers
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26 June 1971 (SHOW 12)
Roger
- 'San Miguel'
The Tremeloes - 'Hello Buddy.
Ginette Reno – ‘an
unidentified song in French’
Davy Jones - 'Rainy Jane.'
Roger
Whittaker - 'Fairytale'
Val Doonican - 'I Believe My Love Loves Me.'
Roger Whittaker, Ginette Reno and J Vincent Edwards - 'Black and
White'
Jackson & Jones - 'Make No Mistake' (one half of the duo is
actually J Vincent Edwards)
Georgia Brown – ‘Many Loving Things.’
Los Zafiros – ‘an unidentified Spanish song’
Roger Whittaker – ‘an
unidentified whistling tune’ & 'He Starts Below.'
All the guests and
studio audience - 'Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In)’.
Other credits:
Announcer: Brian
Matthews.
Dancers: Sally Riggs, Micki Hotack, Zena Clifton Dancer,
Bonita Brug, Maggie Vickers, Dennie Bayliss
Lorna Nathan, Georgina
Allen.
Choreographer: Nita Howard.
Backing Singers: The Ladybirds
(Maggie Stradder, Gloria George, Marion Davies)
Blue Mink Rhythm
Running time - minutes: 37.44
Musical associate: Sam Harding
Musical Director: Harry Rabinowitz
Producer/Director: Keith Beckett
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03 July 1971 (SHOW 13)
Roger
Whittaker - 'Sing Hallelujah.'
Pickettywitch - 'Summertime Feeling.'
J. Vincent Edwards - 'Sounds of Tomorrow.'
Roger Whittaker - 'I
Don't Believe in If Anymore.'
Sandie Shaw - 'Show Your Face.'
Roger Whittaker & Sandie Shaw - 'Don't Let the Rain Come Down.'
(Ginette Reno and J. Vincent Edwards also join in).
Hines Hines and
Dad - 'Put a Little Love in Your Heart.'
Ginette Reno - 'I've Got to
Have You.'
The Blue Mink Rhythm (with Roger Coulam on the organ,
Herbie Flowers on bass guitar, Alan Parker on guitar and Barry Morgan on
drums) - 'Whole Lotta Love'.
Roger Whittaker – ‘an unidentified
whistling song.’
Nina van Pallandt - 'Someday.'
Roger Whittaker -
'Google Eye' & 'My Song'
All the guests and studio audience - 'Aquarius
(Let the Sunshine In)’.
Other credits:
Announcer: Brian Matthews.
Dancers: Sally Riggs, Micki Hotack, Zena
Clifton Dancer, Bonita Brug, Maggie Vickers, Dennie Bayliss
Lorna
Nathan, Georgina Allen.
Choreographer: Nita Howard.
Backing
Singers: The Ladybirds (Maggie Stradder, Gloria George, Marion Davies)
Blue Mink Rhythm
Running time - minutes: 38.57
Musical
associate: Sam Harding
Musical Director: Harry Rabinowitz
Producer: Keith Beckett
Director: Bruce Gowers
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